SahanaCamp @AIT Thailand

Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th December 2013

Hosted by the :: ​Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Development in the Context of Climate Change (SDCC)

• Location on a map : ​Click to View
• Address : Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change, ​Asian Institute of Technology, Khlong Nung, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Objectives ::

• Become familiar with Sahana tools for preparedness, warning, and response
• Investigate the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) for adopting the Sahana software
• Use the SWOT to identify an optimal set of Sahana modules along with the required functionality and a strategy for proposing a set of tools host at AIT for the users
• Formulate individual short, medium, and long -term actions to plan future Sahana related work through AIT

Hands-on Exercises Tutorials ::

Exercise	DM Cycle	WORD	PDF
1. Community Resilience Mapping	Preparedness	download	download
2. Vulnerability Mapping	Preparedness	download	download
3. Alerting and Messaging Broker	Warning	download	download
4. News Feeds	Response	download	download
5. Incident Reporting	Response	download	download

Overview of the Tools used in the exercises

1. ​Community Resilience Mapping (access ​demo)
2. Vulnerability Assessment (access demo)
3. Alerting and messaging (access demo)
4. News feeds (access demo)
5. Incident reporting (access demo)

Factiliator

• ​Nuwan Waidyanatha

Schedule

DAY 01 - Monday 16th

Time	Action
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and participant Introductions; Overview of SahanaCamp 2 days agenda
09:00 - 09:30	Introduction to Sahana Software Foundation, the open source community, products, services, programs, deployments and lessons learned
09:30 - 10:30	Hands-on paired team preparedness exercise with Community Resilience Mapping Tool (CRMT) and/or Vulnerability mapping
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Group hands-on exercise - Develop regional or country near-realistic resilience maps; Use news-feeds to improve data on the maps
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	SWOT analysis of CRMT and group presentations; write specific action items
14:30 - 15:00	Tea/Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00	Hands-on paired team warning exercise with Sahana Alerting & Messaging Broker (SAMBRO)
16:00 - 17:00	Group exercise - set up alerting profiles and templates in SAMBRO

DAY 02 - Tuesday 17th

Time	Action
08:30 - 09:00	Introduction to the EDXL Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard, policies, & procedures
09:00 - 09:45	Group exercises with direct and cascade local and cross-border alerting
09:45 - 10:30	SWOT analysis of SAMBRO & CAP and group presentations; append specific action items
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Introduction to EDXL-SITREP (situational reporting)
11:30 - 12:30	Group exercises with field-observation (Assessments/News-feeds), Incident reporting, and deriving Response Resource
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	SWOT analysis of Incident Reporting tools/methods and group presentations; append specific action items
14:30 - 15:00	Tea/Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00	Discuss strategies for integrating AIT models/technologies with Sahana software; i.e. what do you want out of Sahana & AIT
16:00 - 16:30	Discuss participant expectations of a SSF CoE @ AIT;
16:30 - 17:00	closing remarks and evaluate the SahanaCamp@AIT-BKK

Exercises questionnaires

1. SWOT analysis (download instruction: PDF)
2. Individual action plans (download form: WORD PDF)
3. Workshop evaluation (download form: WORD PDF)

Sponsors

Asian Institute of Technology Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change

The AIT’s Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change (SDCC) emphasizes the consolidation of research efforts and creation of a niche that will harness the Institute’s range of network, experience and expertise. The Institute has responded rapidly to the new challenges the region faces. Disaster Risk Management is one of SDCC thematic area, lead by Dr. Manzul Azharika. This thematic area emphasises that effective disaster management hinges on reducing the vulnerability. Moreover, reducing disaster risk is also vital to climate change adaptation. The process of managing disaster risks entails understanding and identifying the risk factors and simplifying the complexities of disaster risk assessments.

Spot On Solutions (Private) Limited

Spot On Solution's advances in being recognized as a market leader, in the Asia Pacific Region, offering specialized Information Communication Technology (ICT) products and services for "risk knowledge mobilization." We provide public and closed user group alerting solutions for Governments, Private Entities, and Non-Governmental Organizations. Our life-saving solutions are Common Alerting Protocol-enabled for consistent and complete messaging. The comprehensive solutions are designed for multi-agency emergency coordination and location-based risk information dissemination over a multitude of technologies.